恥じる (hajiru) conjugation
to feel ashamed
恥じる (はじる, hajiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 恥じる hajiru | 恥じます hajimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 恥じない hajinai | 恥じません hajimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 恥じた hajita | 恥じました hajimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 恥じなかった hajinakatta | 恥じませんでした hajimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 恥じて hajite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 恥じている hajiteiru | 恥じています hajiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 恥じたい hajitai | 恥じたいです hajitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 恥じよう hajiyou | 恥じましょう hajimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 恥じられる hajirareru | 恥じられます hajiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 恥じられる hajirareru | 恥じられます hajiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 恥じさせる hajisaseru | 恥じさせます hajisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 恥じさせられる hajisaserareru | 恥じさせられます hajisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 恥じろ hajiro | 恥じてください hajitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 恥じるな hajiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 恥じれば hajireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 恥じたら hajitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
